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Chronic Social Defeat Stress in Early Adolescent Male Mice
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2025
This protocol details how to perform 10 day chronic social defeat stress in early adolescent male mice to produce long-lasting social avoidance in adulthood in more than 60% of mice.
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Administration of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in Adolescent and Adult Mice
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2025
Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the intoxicating constituent in cannabis and a controlled substance in the United States. This article outlines standard procedures for obtaining, storing, and administering THC to mice complying with current legal regulations and briefly introduces a method to assess basic pharmacodynamic effects of THC in rodents.
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Social Defeat Stress Model for Adolescent C57BL/6 Male and Female Mice
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2024
We developed an accelerated social defeat stress model for adolescent C57BL/6 mice, which works in both males and females and allows exposure during discrete adolescent periods. Exposure to this model induces social avoidance, but only in a subset of defeated male and female mice.
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Studying Chronic Exposure of Mice to Ultraviolet B Radiation
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2025
The protocol describes a study of the systemic and local skin effects of Ultraviolet B exposure in mice.
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Modeling Highly Repetitive Low-level Blast Exposure in Mice
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2024
Presented here are methods for producing repeated low-intensity blast exposures using mice.
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Timing matters because adolescence includes ongoing brain and behavioral maturation. An exposure during this stage can therefore be evaluated not only as an immediate challenge, but also in relation to later behavioral outcomes. Comparing results across developmental stages can help determine whether sensitivity depends on when the exposure occurs, making age selection a central design variable in behavior studies.
Duration, intensity, and route determine the conditions under which the mice encounter the stimulus, substance, environment, or stressor. Keeping these factors controlled allows researchers to relate behavioral differences to the exposure rather than to inconsistent experimental conditions. Recording them also makes comparisons between exposed and unexposed groups more interpretable.
Researchers may examine activity, learning, social interaction, anxiety-like responses, and reward-related behavior. These measures represent different aspects of behavioral function, so a change in one domain does not automatically indicate a change in all others. Selecting several relevant measures can help describe whether an exposure is associated with a broad or more specific behavioral outcome.
Unexposed control animals provide a comparison for behavioral measures collected from exposed mice. This comparison helps identify differences associated with the controlled exposure rather than simply describing behavior in the exposed group. Controls are especially important when interpreting activity, learning, social interaction, anxiety-like responses, or reward-related behavior during a period of normal developmental change.
A study first identifies the adolescent developmental stage and the exposure conditions, including timing, duration, intensity, and route. Researchers then compare mice receiving the controlled exposure with unexposed controls and collect behavioral measures relevant to the research question. Standardizing these elements supports clearer links between the developmental exposure and observed behavioral outcomes.
Researchers use adolescent exposure studies when they want to examine how a developmental condition relates to later behavior. The approach can model encounters with a controlled substance, environment, stressor, or sensory stimulus, then assess outcomes such as learning, social interaction, activity, anxiety-like responses, or reward-related behavior. It provides a controlled way to connect environmental influences with neurobehavioral development.
Behavioral testing can show whether exposed mice differ from unexposed controls in activity, learning, social interaction, anxiety-like responses, or reward-related behavior. These outcomes help characterize the behavioral consequences associated with the exposure and developmental timing. Because adolescence involves maturation, the findings can also inform how environmental conditions relate to later neurobehavioral development.